1.
RELATIVE CLAUSES OF TIME
Relative clauses of time refer to a time (date or moment) previously mentioned. Relative
clauses of time are usually introduced by the verb “to be”.
February 14th is the day when people give cards to the ones they love.
Date be relative clause
New Year’s Eve is a night when I have fun with my friends.
Moment be relative clause
Now complete the following dates or moments:
Christmas
March18th
November 20th
Children’s day
Mother’s day
3rd. Sunday of June
ADVERBIAL CLAUSES OF TIME
Time clauses are subordinate clauses and usually go with a main clause. When the time clause
precedes the main clause, a comma is used.
Time clauses follow the rule of the sequence of tenses. That is, when the verb of the main
clause is in a present or future form, the verb of the time clause is in a present form. When the
verb of the main clause is in a past form, the verb of the time clause is in a past form too.
Main clause Time clause
He visits us whenever he is in town.
Whenever he is in town , he visits us.
Time clause Main clause
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POSSIBLE ANSWERS:
Christmas is the night when people celebrate Jesus’ birthday. Mother’s day is the day when people give gifts to their mothers
March 18
th
is the day when people celebrate the oil expropriation. 3
rd
. Sunday of June is the day when people celebrate father’s day.
November 20
th
is the day when people celebrate Mexican Revolution.
Las clausulas relativas de tiempo se refieren a un tiempo, fecha o momento, previamente mencionado.
Las clausulas relativas de tiempo son generalmente presentadas por el verbo “to be (ser, estar o tener)”.
Las clausulas de tiempo son clausulas subordinadas y generalmente van con una clausula principal. Cuando la
clausula de tiempo va antes de la clausula principal se usan comas.
Las clausulas de tiempo siguen las reglas de la secuencia de tiempos. Esto es, cuando el verbo de la clausula
de la clausula principal esta en pasado, el verbo de la clausula de tiempo esta en pasado también.
principal esta en presente o futuro, el verbo de la clausula de tiempo esta en presente. Cuando el verbo

2.
There are other time clauses that you don’t know or maybe you do but with a different
grammatical function, here they are:
As (como) No sooner …than (no antes de)
As soon as (tan pronto como) Since (desde entonces)
As long as (en tanto que) The sooner (lo más pronto)
By the time (cuando, en el momento) Till/until (hasta)
The moment that (en el momento en que) Whenever (cuando sea)
Once (una vez que) While (mientras, en tanto que)
Hardly…when (apenas… cuando) The first/last/next time (la primera/última/próxima)
Immediately (inmediatamente, tan pronto como)
These are sentences from your book. Do you remember them?
When people get married in Japan, they sometimes have the ceremony at a shrine.
After the food is served, the guests give speeches or sing songs.
Before the guests leave, the bride and groom give them presents.
Read the sentences and match the two columns:
A. Can you buy me a cartoon of orange juice 1. She takes off her shoes.
B. Tidy your bedroom. 2. Turn the lights off.
C. When we go to a party 3. They always do the homework.
D. before you go to bed 4. After he gets up.
E. After they eat 5. When you go shopping, please?
F. When she gets home 6. We take a gift with us.
G. He takes a shower 7. Before you go out to play.
ANSWERS
A5B7C6D2
E3F1G4Hay otras clausulas de tiempo que no conoces o quizás las conoces pero con una función gramatical
diferente, aquí te las mostramos: